Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Become a job-ready AWS Cloud Engineer — from zero to certification-level skills.
About this program
Why this career pays off
AWS runs the largest share of the world's cloud workloads, and companies across every industry are hiring engineers who can design, deploy and operate on it. This instructor-led program takes you from cloud fundamentals to hands-on mastery of the core AWS services used in real production environments — with live activities, a capstone project and interview preparation built in.
What you'll learn, module by module
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01 Cloud Computing Fundamentals
- What cloud computing is and why companies are migrating
- IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS
- AWS global infrastructure: regions, AZs, edge locations
- Setting up and securing your AWS account
02 Core AWS Services — Compute, Storage, Database
- EC2 instances, AMIs and instance families
- S3 storage classes, versioning and lifecycle policies
- EBS, EFS and when to use each
- RDS and managed databases
03 Networking Essentials
- VPC design: subnets, route tables, gateways
- Security groups vs NACLs
- Route 53 DNS and load balancing with ELB/ALB
- Hybrid connectivity basics
04 Security & Identity Management
- IAM users, groups, roles and policies
- Least-privilege design
- KMS and encryption at rest / in transit
- Compliance and audit basics with CloudTrail
05 Monitoring & Logging
- CloudWatch metrics, alarms and dashboards
- Centralised logging
- Cost and usage monitoring
- Incident response basics
06 Automation & Infrastructure as Code
- CloudFormation templates
- Introduction to Terraform
- AWS CLI and scripting
- Tagging and governance at scale
07 High Availability & Fault Tolerance
- Multi-AZ and multi-region design
- Auto Scaling groups
- Backup and disaster recovery strategies
- Designing for failure
08 DevOps on AWS
- CI/CD with CodePipeline and CodeBuild
- Containers: ECS and an introduction to EKS
- Serverless with Lambda
- Blue/green and rolling deployments
09 Cost Management
- Pricing models: on-demand, reserved, spot
- Cost Explorer and budgets
- Right-sizing workloads
- Real-world cost optimisation case studies
10 Capstone: Live Project
- Design and deploy a production-style 3-tier application
- Documentation and architecture diagrams
- Project walkthrough for interviews
- Mock interview rounds on your project
Who this program is for
- Any graduate (B.A, B.Com, B.Sc, BBA) looking to enter IT
- Engineering students and graduates (B.Tech, B.E, M.Tech)
- BCA / MCA students and diploma holders
- Working professionals planning a switch to cloud
- DBAs, testers and project managers upskilling to cloud
Roles you can target after
- AWS Cloud Engineer
- Cloud Support Associate
- Cloud Administrator
- DevOps Engineer (entry)
- Solutions Architect (associate track)
Tools & technologies covered
EC2 S3 RDS VPC IAM CloudWatch CloudFormation Lambda Route 53 ELB Auto Scaling CodePipeline
Common questions
SHA Cloud Career Path ?
Foundation ->Cloud Administration ->Cloud Support / Junior Cloud Engineer ->Cloud Engineer ->Senior Cloud Engineer->Cloud / Solutions Architect
Database Architect path?
Database Foundation:→ Junior DBA / Database Support→ DBA→ Senior DBA / Database Engineer→ Database Architect
Can I directly work as Database Architect?
No, not at all. Below is the path you have to follow:
Database Foundation:→ Junior DBA / Database Support→ DBA→ Senior DBA / Database Engineer→ Database Architect
Can I joined directly as Cloud Architect?
No, Not at all.
Foundation ->Cloud Administration ->Cloud Support / Junior Cloud Engineer ->Cloud Engineer ->Senior Cloud Engineer->Cloud / Solutions Architect
Don't Know Which IT Career Is Right for You?
You don't need to choose a technology before understanding the career. Your IT Career Map:
Graduate->Understand your background & strengths->Choose a direction->If you enjoy...Infrastructure, systems, servers, then a possible path is Cloud / Infrastructure-> If you enjoy...Databases, data, backend systems, then a possible path is Database / Cloud DBA. If you enjoy...Programming + mathematics + analytics, then a possible path is Data / AI. If you enjoy...Automation + infrastructure, then a possible path is DevOps / Cloud Engineering. If you enjoy...Security & systems, then a possible path is Cloud Security / Cybersecurity. If you enjoy...Multiple cloud platforms, then a possible path is Multi-Cloud / Gen & Agentic AI and on ......Final steps once you decide: Foundation → Specialisation → Projects → Interview Preparation → Job Search _> Got placement. So you need one mentor for this guidance who himself works in the IT Industry that to minimum of 10- 12 years.